24 October

**THE STRUGGLE AGAINST HUNGER**

MEMORANDUM TO L. B. KAMENEV*.

24/X [1921]

Comrade Kamenev!

I propose to answer:

"I have received the letter about parcels and fully sympathize. Our government has already permitted parcels to Hoover; we shall gladly permit them to you as well, provided the American government does not forbid it. Lenin"¹.

I ask for your review: should we not add something?

Or perhaps first pass a decree?

Lenin.

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¹ A draft response written by Lenin in connection with his receipt of a letter from the daily cooperative newspaper "Russkii Golos" [Russian Voice] in the United States of America and Canada, in which the newspaper, on behalf of the Russian colony, requested permission to receive private parcels from Russians in America for relatives in Russia.

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MEMORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY.

[25 October 1921]

1) Get in touch with Kamenev

2) [The] decree (on parcels) has not been published¹; there are no instructions.

3) Put [it] on the agenda of the Council of Labor and Defense tomorrow.

¹ The Decree on the Procedure for Payment and Direction of Food and Other Parcels Following from Countries Which Have Not Concluded Agreements with the RSFSR was adopted by the Council of Labor and Defense on 20 September 1921 (see "Izvestiia" No. 242, 28 October 1921). The Council of Labor and Defense at its session of 30 September 1921 again confirmed the resolution permitting private parcels from abroad.

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LETTER TO V. M. MOLOTOV**.

December 1921

Comrade Molotov!

I think that we must immediately agree and, to be certain, send a telegram about it—both through Krasin, and through Berlin and through Christiania¹.

* The memorandum was written by Lenin at the end of the letter from "Russkii Golos." On the first page of the letter there are the following notations by Lenin: "To Comrade L. B. Kamenev. Letter p. 3. Lenin." And on the left in the corner: "Received 24/X 1921." Ed.

** Printed from a typewritten copy; the secretary's notation on the letter reads: "Transmitted to Molotov through Enukidze." Ed.